Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites — Further to our earlier story on visitors to Google Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.

Mind Your Step: "Cyberwar" with the Search Engines? — Is it just me, or did someone not get the facts totally right? If a TechCrunch article is to be believed, search engines like Google and Yahoo! seem to be, once again, invisible in the nation of 1.3 billion.

Youtube is blocked in china — Live.com,yahoo.com and blogsearch.google.com is redirected to baidu.com — Strange. Very strange. — it seems that nearly all foreign search engines are abducted to baidu.com... Philipp Lenssen even www.google.cn? what about www.google.com?

Baidu Hijacking Google Traffic In China — Google has done it hard in China. Confined to acting within both local laws and US copyright laws it has failed to take the lead in a market that will have more broadband users that the United States in the next 12-18 months.

Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online — Switching gears, it will provide free views of the program in a bid to generate ad revenue. — NEW YORK — Media giant Viacom Inc. is suing YouTube Inc., but it's also taking lessons from the online video service.

Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App Builder Popfly — Microsoft just demoed on stage at the Web 2.0 conference a slick Silverlight application development service called Popfly, which just opened up in beta. Popfly lets anyone, even non-coders, create web mashups without writing a single line of code.

Microsoft's Popfly now in public beta — Popfly is an online system for creating mash-ups, widgets and live Web pages without writing code — you just link little boxes together. It created a bit of a stir back in May, when I blogged about the invitation-only alpha verson.

Sony to sell new 40GB PlayStation 3 in U.S. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote, NEWS , Research) will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo this holiday.

Many stages — A spokesman for the UK regulator Ofcom said there were still many stages to pass through before final approval was given to the roll out of the plans. — The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), in the UK, and the European Aviation Safety Agency are working to ensure …

Gates still has a long to-do list — SAN FRANCISCO—Bill Gates has some unfinished business. — For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means …

Skype Goes Mobile — Skype's new cell phone will deliver mobile access to its service. The beleaguered carrier hopes to jump-start revenues overseas — Bit by bit, big names in the computing world are barging into the cell-phone business. First came Apple's (AAPL) game-changing iPhone.

Windows Live Photo Gallery And Flickr — Kip noted yesterday about WLPG getting an update from Windows Update and included a Microsoft KB link, but what that link doesn't contain was what else might have come with that update. You might remember last month we hinted that WLPG might support...